Saturday, 22 November 2014

Don't trust the kernel version on DigitalOcean

This was tricky. I was setting up a VPN connection with a newly built DigitalOcean droplet (standard debian wheezy 64bit in the London1 data center).The connection is based on openvpn, and it's the same on many other nodes, but openvpn wasn't starting properly (no sign of the tun interface).Googling the problem brought me to this reported debian bug, where apparently the problem was associated to an older version of the linux kernel. But I had the latest installed: